Crossword
ACROSS
1 Early finisher’s luxury
12 Word heard before a hike
15 Paper Mate introduced one in 1979 16 Hearth debris
17 Mock question of literacy 18 Poe’s __ Morgue
19 Casual greeting 20 Struggle with one’s sins? 21 Vicuña cousins
23 __ pit
24 Trap
25 Set out
28 Relay
29 Some memory triggers
30 Polite gesture from Alice
33 Malicious gossip
34 Actions to avoid
35 “The Hound of the Baskervilles” setting
36 Trial results
38 “Nobody Listens to __ Poundstone”: comedy podcast
39 Not on the ball
40 Spacely Space Sprockets employee
41 Some pending cases
43 French bean?
44 Twist in pain
45 Play the sycophant to, with “over”
46 Ms. Pac-Man ghost
49 Hedonist’s goal
50 Boss’s unsettling request
53 A, to Amélie 54 Barcelona star
55 “__ Miz” 56 Thurible gowith
DOWN
1 Modern fixer
2 Hymn singer’s wrath?
3 Loads
4 Part of i.e.
5 Musical family including James and Livingston
6 One behind a violist, maybe
7 Wintry nuisance
8 BOLO target
9 Clint’s Clyde, in a 1978 movie
10 Dreamers’ opposites
11 Circular, in a way
12 Like Pentatonix numbers
13 Expected 14 What we have here
22 Sailor’s shout
23 Strict disciplinarian
24 Play things
25 __-Frank: 2010 financial reform bill
26 Singer Brickell 27 Natural-born quillers?
28 Like Nash poetry
30 Brewery in Golden, Colorado
31 Short court plea
32 Pop’s ma
34 Focused
37 One of Kenya’s official languages
38 Honey or sugar
40 The Dresden Green and The Graff Pink 41 Not good at all
42 Cut back
43 Occupied
45 Okay
46 Just okay
47 Space bear
48 Change the narrative?
51 “Funky Cold Medina” rapper Tone __
52 Pathological liar’s creation